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“I never submitted to the Italian government: I only had conversations with it.”
As reported by Santarelli, Rochat, Rainero and Goglia · Questioning at his trial by an Italian special tribunal, Benghazi, 15 September 1931
Context Captured after years of guerrilla war in Cyrenaica, he was questioned about his 1929 talks with Italian officials during his trial; he was hanged the next day.
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